Ausvgal....

What are you doing? How much??

You should only be taking 50mg Zinc and 500mg of Turmeric daily. and you should take them with food. ESPECIALLY if your having stomach distress.

It is not uncommon for things to flare up a bit when you first start, however, it should calm down within a few days.

If not Stop taking both, wait a couple of weeks, then start back at half the above dose.

Keep us posted
Rick H.

So I though I would share some early adventures I've been having with Turmeric and Zinc. I apologize for the length of this message... I tend to get a bit wordy...

A little background (if you don't want to know, skip this block:)

I'm a male, and I'll be 40 this month. I smoke 2 packs a day and I'm at least 100lbs overweight. I started having this HS problem in my early 30's. It all started from a boil on the back of my neck. It would not heal! Every day it oozed more nastyness, and what came out of it was rank smelling. It grew bigger and bigger and then started making these sinus tracks all the way around my neck with new boils forming at different points around the tracks. I finally went to a doctor and he prescribed some sort of antibiotic and this salty solution that I had to add to these little pieces of cloth and put them on affected areas. That seemed to work at the time, everything went away except for the big boil that started the whole mess at the back of the neck. The contents of it got hard, and so now there is this permanent lump on the back of my neck that occasionally flares up and creates a boil (I still have it there to this day, a decade later.). About the time I got treatment for that, I started getting boils under both my underarms and in the buttocks/upper leg area. The first few I got I attributed to my wallet in the back pocket causing irritation at that spot. However, when it migrated to the other side, then to my underarms, I knew something was up. I finally had it diagnosed by one of the many doctors/dermatologists I've seen as HS.

At any rate, this new daily routine of mine consists of 2 Turmeric tablets (900mg each- "Finest Natural" from a local Walgreens) and 2 Zinc tablets (50mg each - also from Walgreens). I take one of each when I get up in the morning, and also late in the afternoon when I'm back from work.

I waited to start my treatment until I felt I was starting to have a flare up. So this past Friday, I felt one just starting on the back of my leg, (annoying enough to put a bandage on it). I also had a fairly large one in my underarm area that was starting to make it difficult to move my arm.

No change all day Friday, didn't really expect any.

On Saturday afternoon I noticed that the one in my leg must have burst as the bandage on it was getting red. So I started to pull on the bandage to clean/redress the area. As I pulled on the bandage, blood started flowing like a river from the area down my leg!

(This next part is REALLY REALLY gross... just warning you...)

I thought "Wow, ok". So, I continued pulling the bandage off. At about 1/2 way off (as I was watching the mirror while I pull it off this reddish BLOB dribbled down my leg and onto the floor. In the decade of boils I've had, I've never had this happen! The blob had a consistency close to that of strawberry jam (not like jelly or jello), and seemed to be made of blood, pus, and ?? (fat perhaps). It was about a tablespoon full of blob. I cleaned the area and redressed the now open wound.

The strange part of this is, that was the SMALLER and least "ripe" of the two boils I had at the time. It should not have burst on Saturday, I would have normally predicted it to burst normally by Tuesday.

The other boil (the larger one) oddly did not pop Saturday afternoon, but it did ripen fully by Sunday morning, and then drained normally. This one too seemed to clear up faster than expected. I would say it cleared up a day sooner than expected.

Currently I do not have any more active boils. I do have a raised, slightly tender area on my other leg that could develop into a boil. This is also odd, as I normally have two or three going at any given time.

This is promising, so I'll continue the Turmeric and Zinc and report my findings...

Thanks for reading!

Hi ricky. i saw your comments on turmeric an zinc. and i went straight out and brought some, i take 50mg of zinc, and 500mg of turmeric and i take it with breakfast every day, i am a bit scared to stop, even though i am going through hell, i have been on them for 8 days now. just had a look at the zinc tabs, they are 100mg, so i will only have a half, ok

So I'm on day 5 of my Tumeric/Zinc treatment.

I'm still boil free... sort of.

The one on the back of my leg that bust suddenly is STILL discharging blood. I left an unwelcome present on my friend's couch.. :( Fortunately it was on leather, so no harm done...

I also am still getting tender bumps that keep looking like they will turn into full blown boils. However so far they dissipate and get re-absorbed within two days.

I forgot a treatment once, so that day I only had half the normal dosage I've been taking. Other than that I've been taking them like clockwork.

I took a dose of T&Z one morning on an empty stomach, and I started getting a nasty case of sour stomach on the drive to work one morning. I'll never do that again...

I let everyone know when I find out more.

Thanks for reading!

Oscar

Sorry for two posts in a row, but I just thought of something.

I wonder if climate plays into HS.

I had almost daily HS flare ups when I lived in Florida. I moved to Ohio for about 1 1/2 years, and did not have ANY the entire time I lived there.

When I moved back to Florida, I started getting them again almost immediately after moving back.

So I'm still here in Florida suffering, but you have to go where the job is I guess... :(

Thanks for reading!

Well it has been 11 days now of shear agony, i stopped the zinc tablet 3 days ago, and i can just see the light at the end of the tunnel am still sleeping in my lift chair, but the infection burst, and bleed everywhere, that is after i stopped taking the zinc tablet, by the way, the zinc tablet left a very bad taste in my mouth, any one deciding to go on zinc and tumeric should first take a zinc tedt, over here a bottle of it costs 21 dollars, i should have bit the bullet and brougfht a bottle,, all you have to do is take i teaspoon of this water like substance, and if you can taste it, then you have enough zinc in your body, but if it just tastes like water, then you are deficient, in zinc,, zinc is in many of our foods, such as brown rice potatoes, nuts, and many other food souces, look some up yourselves ok, , i am a vegietarian so i get enough zinc from the foods i eat,, anyway i am still a believer in the tumeric, and am still taking it,, yes climate does play a roll in my life, on how i am feeling, winter time is my time summer is when i perspire a hell of a lot,, which doesnt do my boils any good, the only time my boils flare up is when i eat yeast,, they infect for up to 8 weeks, but only when i eat yeast ,, try giving yeast up, it is worth a try,, mind you yeast is in an awful amount of the things we like to eat,, yeast extract, is in all your stocks, canned goods, most sweet thing,, anyway it may be different were you live,, but give it a go ,, thanks for your emails, i havnt been able to sit at my computer for many days now, and i know it is going to kill me just getting up i will keep you posted

ive been by this site a few times before, but never worked up the nerves to join, after the baby (12-5-09) the out breaks are getting worst, nothing we do seems to keep them at bay, in the am i will go and get this Turmeric you speak of and so many others swear by. thanks for the help
-Johnny Quez

Well i have stopped the zinc, and i happy to tell you i am feeling heaps better, i can now walk around, or should i say hobble, beats, just sitting, anyway i am pritty sure it is the tumeric working, one has just weeped every were and now has closed up, and it doesnt hurt to touch it, praise the Lord,

Well, I'm at a bit over a week now on turmeric and zinc. I have learned not to dose myself on an empty stomach, and I have not had the sour stomach symptoms return.

So far, I haven't had an outbreak once all the existing boils healed... Looking good for T&Z so far!!

Is anyone in this group in Denver Colorado? Just curious.

Rick H.

I am a ausy,

For very painful cysts/boils, you can also buy Turmeric powder (they sell it at the grocery store in the baking aisle) and add a little water to make a paster. Put the paste on the cyst and wait....trust me it will be gone within 2 hours :)

I have had boil for a long time and I have never heard of this as a treatment. However, as we all know doctor's don't know everything! I am going to try this and let you everyone else know if it works. Thank you very much for the treatment info. Wish me luck!

Fedup......

Cool. Start with 50mg of Zinc and 500mg of Turmeric daily for 30 days and see how your doing. If things are getting better, then drop back to 5 days a week with two days off. It is about the ideal amount for me. I have been using it for going on 4 years. I has made a huge difference for me.

Rick H.

hi i am new here i am a 26 year old man and i have dealt with HS since i was the age of 10. I have just so tired of the pain and the sores and all the scars on my inner thighs and to top it all off i am getting married on 4-24 and guess what FLARE up time on my butt so i seen that tumeric helps so i am giving it a try the powder and pill made the paste and took a pill so far i hope it helps i dont want to lmp on my wedding day :( also does anone know bout the vitiam A pill or if radation works?